Premierf Dr. Ewart Brown, who is also Minister of Tourism & Transport, said: “This is the fifth year for the Love Festival and I am more than pleased with how the event has grown over the years. The activities planned for this year are sure to entice couples to come and Feel the Love this Valentine’s weekend.”

The Bermuda International Love Festival is an annual weekend getaway flooded with romantic touches from evening cocktails and rounds of golf to great eats and dreamy serenades. It is the ultimate luxury love experience for the well-deserving couple. From February 12-14, 2010 couples will enjoy the plush accommodations and amenities of the Fairmont Hamilton Princess while being treated as preferential guests all weekend long.

This year, some of the festival’s highlights include:

• The Premier’s opening celebration featuring Robb Report’s “Best of the Best,” at the Tucker’s Point Hotel & Spa followed by a performance by The Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, hosted by Robb Report
• Men’s and women’s golf at the newly renovated Port Royal Golf Course, home of the 2009 and 2010 PGA Grand Slam of Golf, hosted by GolfWorld Magazine
• An intimate dinner party at Port O’Call Restaurant
• Brunch at The Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art
• VIP seating for a performance by Grammy award-winner, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, sponsored by the Bermuda alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated
• Private performance by R&B legend, Chuck Jackson

To top it off, couples can let their hair down at any of Bermuda’s hottest nightclubs, or simply unwind at one of Bermuda’s renowned spas.

Travel packages to the 2010 International Love Festival cost $1,600.00 per couple and include an exclusive Gold Room at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess for three nights as well as all Love Festival activities. To revive your love connection in paradise this Valentine’s Day weekend with that special someone visit www.bermudalovefestival.com.

The couple are relocating to New York for work and personal reasons. 64-year old Douglas is set to play Liberace in Scott Soderbergh’s biography of the flamboyant pianist, and also star in the sequel to the 1987 blockbuster Wall Street.

The celebrity couple have rented out their home in Warwick Parish and taken their children out of Warwick Academy.

Michael Douglas has strong ties to Bermuda. He is a shareholder in the Ariel Sands hotel and his mother, Diana Dill, was born in Bermuda in 1923.

They moved to the island in 2002 and supported local organisations such as the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society, Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, Masterworks Foundation, National Dance Foundation of Bermuda, and the Bermuda International Film Festival. Douglas is a keen golfer and is a member of the Mid Ocean Club and Riddell’s Bay Golf & Country Club.